National Affairs: Senatorial Joke

In 1924 Washington politicos tittered at the latest Senatorial joke.
Blatherskite Coleman Blease had been elected South Carolina's
Democratic Senator, in itself funny; and his soap-box campaign oratory
had unseated Blatherskite Senator Nathaniel Barksdale Dial then in
office. The joke was that Senator Dial was displaying cry-babyish
tendencies over his defeat, was, in the language of the street,
"bellyaching" around the Senate and vexing Democrats
(particularly the unfortunately irrepressible Pat Harrison) by
eulogizing President Coolidge* and voting Republican on close issues.
Finally Senator Dial dolefully turned over his seat to the succeeding...